M/s.NEERAJ KUMAR JAIN

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1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF DARSHANI LATERITE AND RED OCHRE DEPOSIT Area : Ha. Village Budhanwara, Tahsil Bohriband, Dist. Katni MADHYA PRADESH For M/s.NEERAJ KUMAR JAIN KATNI 1

2 BUDHANWARA LATERITE AND RED OCHRE DEPOSIT Executive Summary 1.0 General 1.1 The Government of India, Ministry of Environment & Forest has allotted Darshani Block for mining of Laterite, Red Ochre to M/s. Neeraj Kumar Jain. The letter has proposed to establish a Production of Laterite and Red Ochre capacity 20,000 MT/Annum. The proposed area having three hillocks. These hillocks having gentle slope in the north and south direction. The surface plan with elevation contours shows the elevation to be ranging from a maximum of 410m. 1.2 M/s. Neeraj Kumar Jain the project proponent is a partnership firm having registered office at Budhanwara in Katni District. The State Government of Madhya Pradesh has identified Ha. of the lease to the proponent in village Budhanwara, Tahsil Bohriband, District Katni, Madhya Pradesh. Mining Plan for the said area has been approved from the competent authority. The proponent envisages developing mining activities based on the available reserves of ore in central India. The proponent is committed to operate systematic and scientific mining operations making optimum utilization of the resources. Needless to mention that the 2

3 mining activities shall be carried out as per the mandatory laws and regulation prevailing. 2.1 Proposed Mining The total mining lease area proposed is Ha. The proposed area is located in the jurisdiction of Village Budhanwara, Dist Katni. The area was topographically surveyed on 1:1000 scale. Plotting of outcrops was done with the help of Brunton compass and tape. 2.2 There is very little overburden present within the proposed site in co-ordinates. This has mostly been scrapped off earlier. Development is proposed during next five years of ensuing mining scheme period by forming benches and soil & lateritic murrum zone. One development bench is proposed in each zone. In order to prevent haphazard excavation of pits, the production has been proposed at one place. This will provide better administrative & quality control. Separate benches will be formed in Lateritic soil, and Red ochre with Min. and they will be kept sufficiently advanced and apart so as to avoid inter mixing of waste with Red ochre and Laterite. 3.0 Environmental Parameters 3.1 Applied area is covered by 3.0 to 4.0 m. Laterite with Murrum below 5-6 m thick red ochre bed is lying. As per existing quarry 1 and 2 only eastern side of the applied area is taken under mineralized zone. The Red ochre in the applied is red to crimson red in color, massive and amorphous. On applying pressure it becomes powder 3

4 form. Its hardness is about 2.5 and bulk density is 2.1. Ochre zone is marked in the surface geological plan of applied area. For the purpose of reserve calculation avg. thickness of ochre is considered 3 to 4m proved and 3.0 m in probable category. Recovery factor is considered 70% ochre 30% lateritic waste. 3.3 Climate: The applied area in general face typical subtropical climate that is three season named monsoon, winter and summer. The average rainfall of the area is 1090mm. The temperature goes as high as 42 0 C during summer and goes as low as 12 0 C during peak winter. The climate is otherwise pleasant Rainfall: The lease area is located in small village of Budhanwara and information for five years is not readily available. About 1100 mm average annual rainfall has been recorded in the area which is spread over from June to September 3.5 The entire study area is covered under one tahsil of Bahoriband of Katni district in Madhya Pradesh state. Totally 8 villages are covered under the study area with the proposed mine site as the center. In this study, the geographical area of all the 8 settlements covered under 8 km radius circle is taken into consideration though a couple of villages are covered partially in the study area. The proposed area is Govt. of Madhya Pradesh revenue land with flat topography surrounded by agricultural and barren land. The proposed area is predominantly covered with alluvial soil and murrum having thickness 3.0 to 4.0m. 4

5 3.6 The existing method of mining is of opencast manual nature and there will not be any deployment of heavy machinery or blasting which will create dust or air pollution. 3.7 The method of mining is of manual nature with the help of chisels, crowbar and hammers. Whenever required a tractor mounted compressor and jack hammer would be used for heaving purpose. There will not be any heavy development of machines in the area for mining operation as the mining will be in very small scale. There will not be any appreciable impact for noise pollution. 4.0 Environment Management Plan 4.1 The method of mining is of opencast manual nature and not very heavy types of machines are being deployed in the area and it is presently free from noise pollution. The ambient noises are primarily due to wind. The noise level is within acceptable limit. 4.3 It is already mentioned that there will not be much generation of waste which is required to be treated properly or stored securely to prevent its spillage to the surrounding. At present no such situation is envisaged. 4.4 The area small and dumps will be established by developing plantation on it as well as on the existing dumps so that spillage of dumps does not occur in the surrounding. 4.5 The mining operation is of manual nature. There is no processing unit is to be erected for upgradation of mined out ore which will generate tailings and contaminated substance. So, there is no possibility of endangering the surrounding water bodies due to mining operation in the lease area. 5

6 5.0 SOCIO ECONOMICS: The small scale mining operations will not have any major effect on the socio-economics of the area. It will provide employment to the local people and will help in uplifting their living standards. Due to this reason there will be more improvement in the living condition of the people, there will be more employment in the area HISTORICAL MONUMENT: As no such monuments are situated in the vicinity of the area, the question of any adverse effect on them does not arise. 5.1 Occupational Health and Safety The method of mining is in small scale and of manual nature. There will not be any deployment of heavy machines in the area for carrying out mining operation which will create noise pollution, air pollution or any other operational hazards due to presence of machines. Precaution is required to be observed during drilling with jack hammers against dust. Apart from these no other factor are envisage during future mining operation. 5.2 Human Settlement: In this region there will be mining activities in area. Though there is local populace available but due to increase in demand or increase in mining activity and there is possibility of migration of labour from surrounding area. For this reason there will be increase in the human settlement of the area. Due to increased revenue earning in the area there will be development of infrastructural facilities such as transport, road, housing, schooling as well as hospitals. 6

7 6.0 Summation 6.1 The comprehensive baseline data collected for various environmental parameters shows that the manual opencast mine will not have any substantial impacts on these parameters. All these parameters are expecting to stay within permissible limit. 6.2 The anticipated working life of the mine will be about 50 years including construction period. Only impact, on surroundings, during life of the mine will be noise generated during blasting & drilling. But there is no Blasting. There will not be any heavy deployment of machines in the area for mining operation as the mining will be in very small scale. 6.3 Due to mining activity in area there will be generation of employment to the local people. The mine will open doors of economic development and prosperity to the surrounding area. ************************ 7